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...Brenda L. Buttner’s desk at Fox News sits a broken motorcycle brake handle—a memento of a crash she suffered as a beginner rider—holding down her notes and scripts, which Buttner, a graduate of the class of 1983, keeps as a warning to herself of how easy it is to fall...
...Phoenix Lander is something of a make-good for the ill-fated Mars Polar Lander (MPL), which crashed near the south pole in 1999. The two spacecraft share the same design and Phoenix was originally headed to the planet as Mars Surveyor 2001 until the MPL crash prompted NASA to mothball the project. After correcting several design flaws, NASA resurrected Surveyor as the Mars Phoenix Lander. The space agency, which spent $100 million on Surveyor, has invested another $420 million in the improved vehicle. The Canadian Space Agency contributed another $37 million for a weather station...
...Lost, whose Season 4 finale airs May 29, is not like a sitcom or a doctor soap. An elaborate sci-fi/fantasy thriller about plane-crash survivors stranded on an island, it has told a single, wildly complicated story involving--deep breath--time travel, conspiracies, a monster made of smoke, a utopian experiment gone bad, ghosts, polar bears in the tropics, philosophy, metaphysics and a mystical set of numbers that may have to do with the end of the world...
When the U.K. housing market last hit the skids, with prices slipping by a third in the six years from 1989, unemployment and interest rates were both higher. This time around, the hope is that Britain's shortage of housing supply may help prevent such a bloody crash. The rate of housebuilding in Ireland and Spain - both of whose markets have overheated in recent months - more than doubled in the decade to 2006. In the U.K., the increase was just 12%. Demand ought to remain robust, says Ball, with "long-term rising incomes bashing against the cliff of tight supply...
...There's a transition, obviously, moving from a candidate for the presidency back to the Senate, but I loved the Senate before I ran," Kennedy said, walking slowly through the Capitol building, hunched due to chronic back pain he suffers from a 1964 plane crash. "I came to the Senate at an early age. I always wanted to be in the Senate. I love it now, and so I very quickly adapted to returning to the Senate...